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Followers of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr storm the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad on July 20 to protest a Quran burning in Sweden. Many Swedes worry about the impact of the anti-Quran protests on the ...

On several occasions in 2023, people set fire to Islam's holy book in public in Sweden, prompting outrage in the Muslim world and raising fears of attacks by extremists. Swedish prosecutors said ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Sweden’s ambassadors have been summoned in various countries including Saudi Arabia and Qatar following a second event to desecrate Islam’s holy book was held in Stockholm. Israeli forces martyr 31 ...

had carried out several anti-Islam protests, prompting Sweden to reconsider its laws on burning religious texts. While police had initially permitted his protest under free-speech laws ...

Sweden's admittance to NATO is now in jeopardy after Swedish police issued a permit for a protest in which the burning of the Quran, the holy book of Muslims, was set alight.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has condemned the incident of public burning of the Holy Quran in front of a mosque in Sweden. In a tweet, he said such vile, despicable and heinous Islamophobic acts ...

Iraq has ordered the Swedish ambassador to leave and withdrawn its chargé d'affaires from Stockholm after police granted a permit to a protest at which a man said he'd burn the Quran. Sweden's foreign ...

Swedish police have given permission to hold a Quran-burning rally before ... rallies on the grounds that the protest could increase the terrorist threat to Sweden. The Court of Appeal later ...

Еру Iraqi prime minister held the meeting to condemn the burning of the Quran ... a new protest involving the burning of the Muslim holy book and the subsequent attack on Sweden's embassy ...